Clik here to view.
'Fork It Over' culinary contest fund-raiser for Girl Scouts features area...
Top savory winner last year Nicholas Hayes back in the June 25 event. Nick Hayes, executive chef at Slainte in Holyoke, will use Thin Mints in his savory dish for the Girl Scouts "Fork it Over"...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Look back at gay rights movement as U.S. Supreme Court ponders Defense of...
Much change in the last 50 years. In this March 14, 1997 file photo provided by Touchstone Television, Ellen DeGeneres, left, playing character Ellen Morgan, discusses her fears about coming out as a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Springfield resident John Scagliarini, 25, gets new set of lungs
Transplant allows UMass student to resume normal life. Springfield resident John Scagliarini, 25, had a double lung transplant in November at Massachusetts General Hospital in BostonRepublican photo...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ludlow's Michael Alves plans to study psychology at Commonweath Honors College
"I've been studying psychology intensely probably since I was 14," says Alves, "particularly the existential works." Michael Alves, of Ludlow, developed an unusual interest in psychology at an early...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Center for Environmental Civics in Amherst offers summer academies
The Center for Environmental Civics offers training in environmental policy, politics, economics and science through seminars, workshops, institutes and other programs Simon Elliott, Mel Devoney,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holyoke receives James Connolly Tribute Fund award
The club, along with the Springfield-serving Project Coach, was presented with the fourth annual James G. Connolly Tribute Fund award at its recent ninth annual Champions of Mentoring Breakfast at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Springfield-area clergy to speak on gun control
Talking points include what faith expects Suffragan Bishop Bruce K. Shaw, New Hope Pentecostal Church and chairman of Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, is among area clergy who will address the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cathedral grad Matt Weber among participants in CBS' 'What's So Funny About...
Documentary will air June 30. Photo by DAVE CHENMatthew Weber Matthew M. Weber, a Cathedral High School graduate, will be among the individuals featured on “What’s So Funny About Religion,” a CBS...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Susan Bennett bids farewell to Springfield Symphony Orchestra
Bennett retired from the SSO on May 31 Susan BennettThe Republican Susan Bennett has amassed many fond memories in her 20 years as cirector of marketing and communications for the Springfield...
View ArticleClik here to view.
James Joyce's Bloom's Day, release of Springfield area resident Michael...
Exhibit, too, at Wood Museum. Author James Joyce, shown in an undated photo, wrote ``Ulysses,'' the epic story about one man's journey during a single day in Dublin, Ireland. In 1998, the work was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Seth Kellogg's 'Birds of the Air': Adirondack forests offer much to see, hear...
Songsters breed in the quiet woods. The black back of this northern woodpecker gives the species a name, but the scene of a mother tending its eggs or its young is universal.Submitted Three days in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wood museum's Guy McLain to talk on 'Irish Immigration Experience in the...
Part of a la Care lecture series on June 20. Guy McLain, director of the Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History, will talk on "The Irish Immigration Experience in the Valley" on June 20...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Greenfield-based Bart's prides itself on ice cream products made with...
Company founded in the 1970s. Barts & Snows Ice Cream in Greenfield makes premium ice cream. Co Owners Gary Schaefer and Barbara Fingold with some of the Bart's Homemade pints . Republican photo...
View ArticleLet's YO!, in East Longmeadow, adds inviting venue to the area's soft-serve...
Their product starts with real yogurt. EAST LONGMEADOW — Craving something sweet and cold to eat without losing that beach body you've worked all winter and spring to perfect? Then stop by Let's Yo in...
View ArticleElizabeth Desjardins of Ware High School earns Comcast scholarship
Desjardins was among 100 college-bound high school seniors awarded a $1,000 scholarship at the Statehouse in June as part of the Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program. BOSTON - State Sen....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Some 200 people enjoy 'St. Jean-Baptiste Celebration' fund-raiser for French...
Josee Vachon's singing of French hymns popular with audience. Quebec-born singer Josee Vachon, a former resident of the Pioneer Valley, was the guest artist at the 'St. Jean-Baptiste Celebrationâ' on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Elms College graduates find satisfaction in West Indies, working as...
Twenty-one-year-old Krystyna K. Starsiak, of Chicopee, cites her Catholic faith as the reason she decided to dedicate a year of her life to service. “It is my way to give back and thank God for all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pioneer Valley Water Garden and Koi Club's annual pond tour features...
Some 16 ponds in Western Massachusetts and Northern Connecticut will be included on the club’s 20th annual Pond Tour on July 13 and 14. Eileen A. Richard in her koi pond with the backyard garden of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Champney's Restaurant going to the dogs with its 'Mutts & Mojitos' benefit...
'Yappy Hour' begins at 5 p.m. on July 27 at the Deerfield Inn. Submitted They’ll be raising money and it’s all going to the dogs at the “Mutts and Mojitos” fund-raiser being hosted by Champney’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stephanie Gerolimatos, participant in Northampton's 2012 Chalk Art Festival,...
Gerolimatos and Mark Bodah of Holyoke, winners of last year's, hope to return this September. Stephanie Gerolimatos and Mark Bodah of Holyoke won the 2012 Northampton Chalk Arts Festival with this...
View Article